I currently work in residential construction but on the management side of things. I understand that OSHA requires a license to operate a crane. With this being said I know obtaining that would be one of my first obstacles among other items such as determining the market demand in my area, training, insurance, funding for purchasing a crane and being able to transport it. But my main question is does anyone here know or have heard of anyone operating a crane business with only a spydercrane? The largest one I would consider is the UNIC URW 547. I feel like there would be a niche for these smaller cranes but I have not found much info online regarding this type of niche. This leads me to believe that either there is not much demand or those in this niche are staying quiet hoping not to add any new computation to this lucrative niche. I currently live near Montgomery (20min roughly). I am very close to Lake Martin, then Columbus Ga is not far, Birmingham Al is about 1.5 hours away and I’m 45min from Auburn Al. Because of Auburn University between their constant development and private development for student living there is a lot of work. Auburn is a bubble. Without doing a market analysis (obviously I would complete one before investing into this) I feel like I would be in a good area to start a business like the one I’m describing but like I said there is not much info out there on services like this. At the moment this is an idea for retirement, some of y’all may think I’m crazy for not wanting to retire but I know I will develop cabin fever. My wife had surgery, I was on leave for a week while she recovered. Yeah I was ready to go back, not because of caring for her but I was at the house all day long. I found out that when you don’t work you can easily forget what day it is !
I have heard that some offer a day rate snd others offer by the hour and normally charge a 3-4 hour min.
Any thoughts, insight and opinions will be much appreciated.
I have heard that some offer a day rate snd others offer by the hour and normally charge a 3-4 hour min.
Any thoughts, insight and opinions will be much appreciated.